GoKawiiliPadOS 26.5 is launching very soon, and with it three new features for your iPad. Here’s what’s new.
#1: Automatic pairing for Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse
iPadOS 26.5 introduces a change intended to make it easier to pair Apple accessories with your iPad.
Now, when you connect a Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse via USB-C, the accessory will automatically establish a Bluetooth connection too.
This means that when you disconnect the USB-C cable, your iPad will maintain a wireless connection with the accessory. So there’s no need to perform manual Bluetooth pairing.
The Mac has worked this way for years, with wired connections automatically enabling wireless pairing too. So it’s good to see a similar feature come to the iPad.
#2: New wallpaper with 11+ colorful variants
Apple has a new Pride Luminance wallpaper coming in iPadOS 26.5, and it includes far more than one single wallpaper.
Pride Luminance offers 11 colorful wallpapers to choose from. And if that’s not enough, there’s even a custom wallpaper builder feature.
When setting up the wallpaper, you can choose to custom-pick which colors are used. iPadOS 26.5 lets you select as few as 1 and as many as 12 different colors for your wallpaper.
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